Goldminer is a search engine that indexes and provides instant access to Radiology images published in select radiology journals. The ARRS Goldminer understands medical vocabulary. It recognizes medical abbreviations, synonyms and kinds of diseases. It uses techniques from the U.S. National Library of Medicine to discover medical concepts in free-text figure captions and utilizes that information to quickly retrieve relevant images.... Read More

Yes! Firefox is planning to break the Guinness World Record for the “Most Software Downloads in 24 Hours“. I don’t really know if such a record exists but Firefox plans to break it anyway. Since Firefox is already a popular browser choice of many, this is quite a great marketing strategy to create buzz and promote the release of their newest browser version Firefox 3 and getting more users in return. Firefox is known to involve it’s users in the development of its browser and even in the release campaign. If I remember it correctly, they used a different approach when they released Firefox 2. It goes something like if you get a friend to download Firefox, your message to that friend will be included in the Firefox 2 Code or something like that. Maybe that caused Firefox to become such a memory hog in the first place ( just kidding).... Read More

YouTomb is a website created by MIT Free Culture (a student organization in MIT) that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation. We all know that there is a very large amount of videos currently uploaded in YouTube that violates copyright laws. Some of them we never got to see because they have been taken down almost instantly after hitting the YouTube pages while some are taken down after gaining popularity and the original content owner decides to pull the plug.... Read More

How many times have you searched Google or Yahoo using a phrase or a sentence and returned a search result of a page with just a bunch of keywords related to your search and not the real context that you want? Sometimes you’ll end up browsing the second or third page of the search results just to find what you are really looking for. This is why most people agree that the Google page ranking system is losing its relevance. Given this, most people still use the first page of Google search results as their primary resource of information. Low ranking pages with relevant content still loses the battle in the page ranking system Google has devised. Google’s reliance on keywords in their search algorithm doesn’t entirely mean that all the search results they are providing are totally irrelevant. Sometimes it just takes more time to find what you are really looking for in the Google search pages, especially for novice and average users.... Read More

Ecocho, is the earth friendly search engine which just made its debut just before Earth day and was featured here a couple of days ago. Now, it seemed that the green search engine was banned by Google from using their search service. What is ironic about this is that Google pulled the plug on Ecocho during Earth Day.... Read More

Here is an application designed specifically for the iPhone to overcome the overly simplistic camera application of the device - according to the developers. Snapture is created by a group of developers who described buying an iPhone is kind of like buying a GT-R with the speed limiter attached. This application will boost the performance of the iPhone camera to its full potential.... Read More

Flickr just launched a video service that has a limit of 90 seconds (as of now) and 150MB in size per video upload. This new feature of Flickr accepts AVI, WMV, MOV, MPEG (1, 2 and 4) and 3gp video uploads and will only allow videos that are originally created by the owner. Users will have to think twice in uploading videos taken from copyrighted materials. They even recommended getting music from Creative Commons along with ccMixter for the soundtracks. This will prevent users from getting in trouble for copyright infringement.... Read More

I just got an email from Justin Cutillo, Seero founder and CEO, announcing that they are lifting their private beta testing and going public with their live, on-location video platform. Seero is a website that we introduced a few weeks back which utilizes a geobroadcasting platform that integrates live mobile broadcasting and GPS mapping.... Read More

Google recently launched GoogleSky for browser viewing which was only available within Google Earth software. Google sky turns our browsers into a virtual telescope that can zoom and pan across the entire cosmos. This will bring star gazing right into our browsers. Listed below are the features of Google Sky:... Read More

If you happen to be using Windows Vista, be aware that the Service Pack 1 (SP1) update for your system currently has compatibility issues with some applications. Take note that these applications are not just ordinary applications. Majority of the affected software happen to be Virus Detection programs. There are several reports as of now that when you install SP1 for Vista, it will block certain applications.... Read More